Tharina L. Bird

National Museum — South Africa

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies(13), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(12), Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy(10), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(5), Plant and animal studies(4)

Publications31 total

Include scorpions in global conservation plans
Science·2025
Advances in Understanding the Karyotype Evolution of Tetrapulmonata and Two Other Arachnid Taxa, Ricinulei and Solifugae
Genes·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Global Spider News Database (version 2)
Figshare·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Arthropod presence and their relevance in South African archaeological deposits
Southern African Field Archaeology·2025Open Access
Molecular Mechanisms of Temperature Tolerance Plasticity in an Arthropod
Genome Biology and Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Smallholder agriculture in African dryland agroecosystems has limited impact on trophic group composition, but affects arthropod provision of ecosystem services
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Orb-web spider Argiope (Araneidae) as indigenous arrow poison of G/ui and G//ana San hunters in the Kalahari
PLoS ONE·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
The global spread of misinformation on spiders
Current Biology·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
Solifugae (Arachnida): Indigenous Southern African names and their meanings
African Entomology·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites
Scientific Data·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
The global spread of (mis)information on spiders
Research Square (Research Square)·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Temporal and spatial microbiome dynamics across natural populations of the social spider <i>Stegodyphus dumicola</i>
FEMS Microbiology Ecology·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
Host Plant Availability and Nest-Site Selection of the Social Spider Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 (Eresidae)
Insects·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
Prey to predator body size ratio in the evolution of cooperative hunting—a social spider test case
Development Genes and Evolution·2019· 18 cited
The Second Camel Spider (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Burmese Amber
Arachnology·2016· 6 cited
Description of a New Solifuge<i>Melanoblossia ansie</i>sp. n. (Solifugae, Melanoblossiidae) with Notes on the Setiform Flagellar Complex of Melanoblossiinae Roewer, 1933
African Invertebrates·2015· 10 citedOpen Access
Cheliceral Morphology in Solifugae (Arachnida): Primary Homology, Terminology, and Character Survey
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History·2015· 55 citedOpen Access
Cheliceral morphology in Solifugae (Arachnida) : primary homology, terminology, and character survey. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 394)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)·2015· 2 cited
A camel spider from Cretaceous Burmese amber
Cretaceous Research·2015· 19 cited
High resolution images for 'Cheliceral morphology in Solifugae (Arachnida) : primary homology, terminology, and character survey. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 394)'
2015· 7 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Trine Bilde(7), Yael Lubin(7), Lorenzo Prendini(6), Charles R. Haddad(5), Klaus Birkhofer(4), Stefano Mammola(4), Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte(4), Valeria Arabesky(4), Diego Alejandro Barrales-Alcalá(4), Aimee Lynn A. Barrion-Dupo(4), Marco Antonio Benamú(4), Pedro Cardoso(4), Maria Chatzaki(4), Ren‐Chung Cheng(4), Tien-Ai Chu(4), Leticia Classen‐Rodríguez(4), Iva Čupić(4), Naufal Urfi Dhiya’ulhaq(4), André‐Philippe Drapeau Picard(4), Hisham K. El-Hennawy(4)